As the Supreme Commander of Armed Forces, the President can ask for the Supreme Court verdict on General V.K. Singh’s writ petition, his statutory complaint, documents connected with the fabricated age row and ask for a Supreme Court bench to examine and fix this conspiracy against General V.K. Singh

The general belief that the biological date of birth is unalterable may not be true in future. In case of India, this may happen in the immediate future—may be before the end of May 2012. This can be the only reason why the government is not replying to the statutory complaint of General V.K. Singh even after the Supreme Court has forced the government to withdraw the government letter rejecting the said statutory complaint on grounds that “natural justice” has been denied to the General Officer—leaving the date of birth issue (fabricated by design) in the lap of the government.

Possibly, scientists of the DRDO have been tasked to work overtime to come up with ‘back to future’ technology that can alter the date of birth of General V.K. Singh from May 10, 1951 to May 10, 1950. Because of this stupendous futuristic research commitment to be completed in record time leaving behind all advanced nations, axiomatically the entire band of scientists must be buried in deep research. This would also explain why the DRDO has not even been able to come up with a worthwhile carbine or light machine gun for the infantry. Though understandably, utmost secrecy is warranted in such a project, government would have kept appropriate constitutional bodies in generic picture. That is possibly the reason that while the Supreme Court of India granted redress to General V.K. Singh on his writ petition in terms of his statutory complaint to the government, it left the affixing of the date of birth issue to the government.

Hiccups in the ongoing research have even delayed issue of retirement orders of General V.K. Singh. Some three hundred very senior Army, Navy and Air Force veteran officers have sent a memorandum to the President, the Supreme Commander of Armed Forces last month, requesting to intervene to ensure provision of natural justice to General V.K. Singh and asking the government to respond to his statutory complaint. Though the President of India is the constitutional head of India, as per verdict given by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer that remains valid till date, the President is empowered to ask for any document and seek review. As the Supreme Commander of Armed Forces, the President can ask for the Supreme Court verdict on General V.K. Singh’s writ petition, his statutory complaint, documents connected with the fabricated age row and ask for a Supreme Court bench to examine and fix this conspiracy against General V.K. Singh (to retire him 10 months before his tenure) and hold in abeyance appointment of the next Chief of Army Staff. However, it is possible that the government would have appraised the President of the ongoing ‘back to future’ research. It will be simply fabulous if this research fructifies. Not only would it be possible for the government to shift the biological date of birth of General V.K. Singh from 1951 to 1950, the possibilities being enormous, it may be possible to even prove that V.K. Singh never joined the Army. If he still remains stubborn not to demit office, he could be even declared an imposter and arrested.

‘Back to future’ technology could relieve the next Army Chief of any pending inquiries whatsoever (because no such incidents would have happened) and even give him unlimited tenure by rewinding every time his tenure is about to be over. In future, it will not be possible to accuse the government of political unilateralism or political favouritism since the path-breaking technology will do it all. But jokes apart, if this research does come through, would it not be great to get B.R. Ambedkar back to help us come out from this terrible reservations mess or for that matter Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to chalk out a national security strategy for India?

The views expressed herein are the personal views of the author.